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I am a little vexed by this book

The Mother of all Questions by Rebecca Solnit

April 21, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

In which the question is “Why don’t you have kids?” I work in a pretty Democratic-voting but ultimately culturally conservative environment, so nothing about this book rings untrue in the slightest….for the most part. I also think that a lot of these essays, like in the previous book, are fairly good distillations of essential points. But the issue is, that Rebecca Solnit seems to say all the right things. Certainly, for a relatively limited subset of ideas and people who hold opinions on these ideas, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Rebecca Solnit, the mother of all questions

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:181 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Rebecca Solnit, the mother of all questions ·
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